President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to eliminate what he incorrectly labels “the electric vehicle mandate” imposed under former President Joe Biden. His order on Monday is consistent with pledges Trump made on the campaign trail to end what he calls a “preposterous” focus on EVs by Biden and other Democrats. The order, along with other steps expected in a second Trump administration, could slow U.S. efforts to address climate change, much of which is caused by burning gasoline and diesel fuel that emit carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases. Here is a look at Trump’s actions…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer Jules Feiffer has died. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer Jules Feiffer has died. NEW YORK (AP) — Jules Feiffer, an Oscar- and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children’s books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago. Feiffer’s wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple’s two cats and his…
President Trump signed a barrage of orders to dismantle Joe Biden’s agenda on climate and clean energy. Here are three that could have far-reaching consequences. President Trump signed a barrage of orders to dismantle Joe Biden’s agenda on climate and clean energy. Here are three that could have far-reaching consequences. On the heels of the hottest year in recorded history, one that brought the planet to a dangerous temperature threshold, President Donald Trump effectively told the world Monday that the United States is out of the climate fight. Hours after his inauguration, Trump signed a barrage of executive orders to…
Chef José Andrés has responded after President Trump claimed he “fired” the Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient from the White House council on nutrition.
After taking the oath of office, Marco Rubio promised that every action taken by the State Department will be determined by the answers to three questions.
Phish is heading back to California, with dates set at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and Hollywood Bowl. Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, April 17, 2023. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Phish, the world’s greatest jam band, has announced a West Coast tour for April. The trek brings the Vermont quartet — consisting of vocalist-guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman and keyboardist Page McConnell — to California for five dates. Phish performs two nights — April 22 and 23 — at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco…
Attorneys general from 18 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status. Trump’s roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of something he’s talked about during the presidential campaign. But whether it succeeds is far from certain amid what is likely to be a lengthy legal battle over the president’s immigration policies. Here’s a closer look at birthright citizenship, Trump’s executive order and reaction to it: What is birthright citizenship? Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to eliminate what he incorrectly labels “the electric vehicle mandate” imposed under former President Joe Biden. His order on Monday is consistent with pledges Trump made on the campaign trail to end what he calls a “preposterous” focus on EV’s by Biden and other Democrats. The order, along with other steps expected in a second Trump administration, could slow U.S. efforts to address climate change, much of which is caused by burning gasoline and diesel fuel that emit carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases. Here is a look at…
NEW YORK — Right-wing extremists are celebrating Elon Musk’s straight-arm gesture during a speech Monday, although his intention wasn’t totally clear and some hate watchdogs are saying not to read too much into it. “I just want to say thank you for making it happen,” Musk said during a speech at Capitol One Arena on Monday afternoon, referring to Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. Then he slapped his hand on his chest, extended his arm straight outward and upward with his palm facing downwards. He turned around and made a similar gesture facing the other way. “My heart…
Four men with Northwest Indiana ties were among the more than 1,500 people pardoned by President Donald Trump Monday for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Dale Huttle, 73, of Crown Point has served about six months of a 2 ½ year sentence at FCI Thomson, a federal prison near the Illinois-Iowa border. His original release date was in December 2026. Michelle Peterson, his federal public defender, confirmed Tuesday he is set to be released, but declined further comment. Court filings state Huttle had two “violent confrontations” with law enforcement officers on the building’s Lower West Terrace. That…
A little imagination goes a long way. Neuqua Valley High School will be putting that message on display in more ways than one this week as a group of students from the Naperville school compete in the Student Silent Film Festival. Taking place Wednesday night at Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove, the annual competition invites students from across the Chicago area to create their own original films without the aid of voices or sound effects. Neuqua Valley is one of 11 participating high schools this year and the only competitor from Naperville. “I’m really excited,” said senior Emma Jenkins, a…
What living composer is more versatile than Jeanine Tesori? Lyric Opera subscribers heard her beautiful score for the opera “Blue” this past autumn and now Porchlight Music Theatre is reviving “Fun Home,” one of the best song suites in any contemporary musical, not least because of how well Tesori adapted her colossal talents to a woman’s story rooted in memory both traumatic and elegiac. “Fun Home” is based on a graphic novel memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel and probes many of life’s paradoxes through the recollection of the authorial lesbian character, Alison, who grew up in the 1970s…
A 27-year-old Miami Gardens woman was arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly stabbing a juvenile following an argument outside a liquor store in northwest Miami-Dade, authorities confirmed Tuesday. Leer en español Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene near Northwest Seventh Avenue and Northwest 107th Street just before 4:30 a.m. Deputies said they found the victim suffering from a stab wound to her left arm. The victim told deputies she had been arguing with a woman inside the liquor store which led to the alleged attack, according to an arrest report. After the victim left the liquor…
A man from New England faced a South Florida judge Tuesday on a first-degree sexual battery charge after authorities accused him of raping a woman in his cruise ship cabin off the coast of Mexico. Deputies arrested Randy Gaul, 59, of Farmington, New Hampshire, on Saturday after the Norwegian Escape returned to PortMiami. According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Gaul and the woman were acquaintances and shared a room on the ship. It states that the woman told detectives that she had had their beds separated by cabin staff at the start of the journey. The…
During a police pursuit, an 18-year-old migrant allegedly made eye contact with an undercover officer and smiled before nearly hitting him in southern Miami-Dade County. Leer en español Police officers eventually arrested Alex Domingo Pablo on Saturday in Homestead. He allegedly said he was from Guatemala and had been living in the area. According to an arrest report, Domingo was driving a white Dodge Charger when undercover police officers in an unmarked unit noticed him. Domingo “passed us on the left into oncoming traffic” along Southwest Fourth Street and turned northbound into Second Avenue while “accelerating and traveling at a…
He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age.” He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. An honor guard appeared with tricorn hats, fifes and drums — all traditional Revolutionary War iconography. Those in attendance heard tunes deployed from the classic American songbook — from Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.” At the inauguration Monday, American history in its varied stripes was firmly planted. “We will not forget our country,” President Donald Trump said. In summoning people to his vision for the future throughout a day…
Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas. Across the tiny coastal enclave, where built-up refugee camps are interspersed between cities, drone footage captured by The Associated Press shows mounds of rubble stretching as far as the eye can see — remnants of the longest and deadliest war between Israel and Hamas in their blood-ridden history. “As you can see, it became a ghost town,” said Hussein Barakat, 38, whose home in the southern city of Rafah was flattened. “There is nothing,” he said,…
A$AP Rocky turned down a final prosecution plea offer of 180 days in jail and will face the possibility of a guilty verdict and years in prison as jury selection began at his trial on Tuesday. The agreement offered to the 36-year-old hip-hop star, fashion mogul and actor whose legal name is Rakim Mayers was to plead guilty to one of his two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Los Angeles County prosecutors would also recommend a seven-year suspended sentence, three years of probation and the six-month jail term. But Rocky told a judge he respectfully declined. He…
A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday. The two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered before President Joe Biden left office Monday, according to a Trump administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul said the two U.S. citizens had been exchanged for Khan Mohammed, who was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment in 2008. Biden, who…
A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast has prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast has prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday has closed highways and airports and prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. The storm is expected to scatter heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain around the Deep South as a blast of Arctic…